i am doing grad school. for experimental analysis of behavior and/or behavioral pharmacology. I like reading, watching extreme ends of movies (ultra pretentious movies or really really stupid movies), listening to music, eating ice cream, and talking about robots.
Rich Uncle Pennybags from the monopoly game, Lando Calrissian, the actual character, not Billy Dee Williams. Actually I'd meet him too
Harcore/Punk Bands: Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minutemen, Glassjaw, Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, Husker Du, Every Time I Die, Fugazi, Embrace (US), Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Jawbox, Big Black, Bear Vs. Shark, Blood Brothers, Butthole Surfers, Shellac, Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From the Crypt
Metal Bands: Clutch, Mastodon, Pre-Black Album Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Faith No More, Fantomas, Tomahawk, Iron Maiden,
Rap/Hip Hop: Brother Ali, Atmosphere, Dalek, Mos Def, Talib Kwali, Kanye West, Psalm One, Wu-Tang Clan, Why?, Clouddead, Odd Nosdam, Jel, 13 & God, Busdriver, Cex, RjD2, Common, El-P, Buck65, Sage Francis, Aesop Rock
Pop/Rock Bands: Beach Boys (after 1966), Beatles, Super Furry Animals, Blur, They Might Be Giants, Bjork, The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, The Cure, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., The Who, Far, David Bowie, eels, Elvis Costello, Flaming Lips
Country/Country Rock/Alt. Country Bands: Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, George Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Hank Williams (Sr., JR. and III), Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Wilco (well just the album summer teeth), Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Byrds (Sweetheart of the Rodeo), Marty Robbins, The Louvin Brothers, The Carter Family
Indie Rock (Sort of): Bright Eyes, Cursive, Rilo Kiley, Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal, Dinosaur Jr., Caribou, Pavement, Cat Power, Decemberists, Deerhoof, elf power
Misc. Bands: Ween, Frank Zappa, Can, Neu!, Faust, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Animal Collective, XIU XIU, Sigur-Ros, Explosions in the Sky
David Cronenberg: The Fly, The Brood, Videodrome, History of Violence.
David Lynch: Eraserhead, Muholland Drive, Blue Velvet
George A. Romero (...of the Dead series)
Documentaries: Mr. Death, Gates of Heaven, Vernon Flordia, Salesman, Grey Gardens, Brother's Keeper, Hoop Dreams, Stevie, F for Fake (does this count?)
Comedy: Rushmore, Royal Tenebaums, Cabin Boy, Brazil, Every Which Way But Loose, Cannibal the Musical, Ernest Movies!!, Dirty Work, Kung Pow!, Snatch, This is Spinal Tap, A Night at the Opera, The Jerk
Horror: Just about anything with zombies, Phantasm, Friday the 13th (I-IV), The Fog (the original), Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House of a 1000 corpses, The Vanishing (the original one, not the american remake)
Sci-Fi: Alien(s), Star Wars, 12 Monkeys, Equinox, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Abyss, Pi, The Fountain, Children of Men
Drama/Action: Wild Strawberries, Seven Samuri, Straw Dogs, Donnie Darko, One Flew over the Cookoos Nest, Indian Jones, Requiem for a Dream, Aguirre Der Zorn Gottes, Fanny & Alexander, 8 1/2, Rashomon, Pan's Labryinth, Godfather (I & II), Jaws, Leon (the Professional), Lawrence of Arabia, Juline Donkey Boy, M, Ratcatcher
mystery science theater 3000, futurama, simpsons, metalocolypse, venture brothers, the tick, arrested development, law and order: CI and SVU, mama's family, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS!! frisky dingo, sealab, subterrenian (sometimes), random informercials
A Brief History of time (Hawking)
Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)
Beyond Freedom and Dignity/ About Behaviorism (Skinner)
Elegant Universe (Greene)
Guns, Germs and Steel (Diamond)
Trieste of Human Nature (Hume)
Chaos (Gleick)
Structures of Scientific Revolution (Kuhn)
Stephen Jay Gould
Bender
a hero to people with huge heads everywhere
Stephen Hawking
an up and coming comedian